I think that for the price it's a reasonable amount of storage, and it's got a lot of power. Only having a movie or two at a time doesn't really bother me considering the amount of money you save over a comparable device.

For me personally, the lack of an SD card slot is a deal breaker. My rooted Kindle Fire pretty much does all that the Nexus 7 can do. And my $80 7" Polaroid ICS tablet (w/microSD and video-out) have confirmed to me the importance of having removable media capabilities.

We should all vote (with our wallets) against companies that try selling us less functionality for the same or more money. It would not have been impossible to put a microSD slot into the case and it would have cost just pennies more. And the same tablet with such a slot would have been a better tablet, even if there are some who will never need an expansion slot.

Besides, if I wanted to walk around with a tablet and a USB hard drive I would take my laptop. Easier to carry and more useful. Even a USB stick with a dongle is quite a hassle, and gets easily lost or misplaced.

I doubt that a hard disk will work - the power requirements would be too great. USB-OTG is designed for USB sticks, not power-hungry devices like hard disks.

To add to my previous post, a little research removes the doubt: OTG adaptors work with low-power devices only. A USB stick or a mouse works. A keyboard or a hard disk drive (unless separately powered) don't.

It's appealing, but the lack of a card slot really changes our tune and makes us more hesitant to consider it. I didn't vote yet because I said, "undecided". We probably are going to wait until the new year (our wedding anniversary is a few days after the new year) anyway.

My point was not that I would necessarily use that drive, but rather that the idea that I might have to connect storage was not off-putting. Folks are apparently also using larger drives with USB powered hubs.

99.9% of the time 8 GB will be fine. If I am going someplace where I have no WiFi access and I want to watch movies all day long, I'll be able to do that, even if it means copying files from my BIG portable drive onto a memory stick (oh the horrors).